Posted on 09/23/2019 1:40:09 PM PDT by Red Badger
Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee claimed that an AR-15 fired .50-caliber rounds and weighed more than “ten boxes.”
In a video Nicholas Ballasy posted on YouTube last week, Jackson Lee claimed that Democrats were going to have to do more than just push stricter gun-control measures in the House.
Jackson Lee asserted that she had held an AR-15 and the experience shook her.
“I’ve held an AR-15 in my hand, I wish I had it. It is as heavy as 10 boxes that you might be moving and the bullet that is utilized, a .50 caliber, these kinds of bullets, need to be licensed and do not need to be on the street,” she explained.
Critics immediately took issue with Jackson Lee’s claims.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WANT LEGISLATE FIREARMS. They know nothing. To say the ignorance is astounding and terrifying is an understatement.
Is it ignorance? Or is it malevolence? I have a hard time believing someone who WRITES LAWS could be this misinformed.
Unreal.
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) September 23, 2019
you can see how she got it wrong though. Basically the same. pic.twitter.com/MxSKB0X5cT
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) September 23, 2019
How heavy is an AR-15?
Sheila Jackson Lee: pic.twitter.com/qUwA8EaXUD
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) September 23, 2019
Was traveling over the weekend so just seeing this but OMG how are these people qualified to write legislation on this when they demonstrate such cluelessness? Thread. ???????? https://t.co/fGnyHaven0
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 23, 2019
While an AR-15 — which actually weighs between seven and nine pounds — can technically be custom-built to accommodate a .50-caliber round, the standard model off the shelf fires a .223 or 5.56mm round.
VIDEO AT LINK......................
Does this idiot even have a brain? I have cats that are smarter than this lump.
Don’t bring too many to Guam, it will tip over.
10 boxes of what, Sheila????
10 boxes of feathers???
10 boxes of rocks???
It’s not nice to make fun of the mentally retarded.
The AR can use a lot of different uppers, but .50cal is not one. In Oregon only idiots like her can pass gun laws.
So much idiocy, and so little time.
This woman is an embarrassment to black people everywhere....
I imagine an AR chambered in .50 BMG would kick like a sumbitch!
I think she means packed moving boxes.
Believe it or not, there are people who are more stupid than she is. I realize that it is hard to understand, but they are. And they are those who vote for her.
Sheila: "Yeah, that's it. Looked like my husband's you-know-what."
We are tried by a jury of our peers but ruled by the dumbest people on the planet.
That’s not Shelia Jackson Lee, from Houston Texas.
That’s Frederica Smith Wilson, Florida’s version from Miami....................
It is an embarrassment to our society that nitwits like her are our elected “leaders “. Pathetic wretch.
Does anybody know what that means?
Sheila is an ignorant carpetbagger whose presence in Congress proves that the Black voters in Houston are even stupider than she is ....an embarrassment toTexas.
People look up to her....................while they’re rolling on the floor laffing....................
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